Practice in small groups (28hours):

1. Mon 10-12 B3110 (COOPER) starting 7.9
2. Tue 14-16 B3108 (METSÄ-KETELÄ) starting 8.9

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Groups:

1. Tue 9-10 B4116 (COOPER) starting 1.9
2. Tue 17-18 B3111 (GURNEY) starting 8.9
3. Wed 14-15 A06 (GURNEY) starting 2.9

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Tutorials (starting 1.9.2009):

1. Mon 12-14 B4125 (COOPER)
2. Tue 8-10 B4125 (GURNEY)
3. Tue 10-12 B4125(GURNEY)
4. Wed 14-16 B4125 (COOPER)
5. Wed 16-18 B4125 (GURNEY)
6. Thu 10-12 B4125 (COOPER)

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Lectures (starting 7.9.2009):

• Mon 16-17  B1097 (ROBERTSON, PIIPPONEN).

Tutorials (starting 1.9.2009):

1. Tue 10-11 B3112 (ROBERTSON)
2. Tue 11-12 B3112 (PIIPPONEN)
3. Tue 16-17 A3098 (PIIPPONEN)
4. Wed 15-16 A06 (PIIPPONEN)
5. Wed 16-17 B4118 (PIIPPONEN)
6. Thu 12-13 B3030 (ROBERTSON)
7. Thu 13-14 B3030 (ROBERTSON)

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Lectures (starting 3.9.2009):

• Thu 14-15 Paavo Koli auditorium (GURNEY) 

Tutorials (starting 1.9.2009)

1. Tue 16-17 B3108 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
2. Wed  10-11 B4118 (GURNEY)
3. Wed 11-12 B4118 (GURNEY)
4. Thu 10-11 B3113 (NORRI)
5. Thu 11-12 B3113 (NORRI)
6. Thu 12-13 B5078 (COOPER)
7. Thu 13-14 B5078 (COOPER)

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Lectures (starting 7.9.2009):

• Mon 15-16 B1097 (ROBERTSON, SALMELA)

Tutorials (starting 1.9.2009):

1. Tue 10-11 B4119 (SALMELA)
2. Tue 11-12 B4119 (SALMELA)
3. Wed 9-10 C3 (SALMELA)
4. Wed 10-11 C3 (SALMELA)
5. Wed 11-12 A2093 (ROBERTSON)
6. Wed 16-17  B4117 (ROBERTSON)

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2 hours (lecture + tutorial) for ten weeks, starting 7.9.2009

Lectures:

• Mon 14-15  B1097 (SAVOLAINEN)

Tutorials

1. Tue 14-15 A3098 (PIIPPONEN)
2. Tue 15-16 A3098 (PIIPPONEN)
3. Wed 11-12 C3 (SALMELA)
4. Wed 17-18 B4118 (PIIPPONEN)
5. Thu 10-11 A21 (SALMELA)
6. Thu 11-12 A21 (SALMELA)
7. Thu 14-15 A21 (PIIPPONEN)

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1. Tue 10-11 C3 (NORRI)
2. Tue 11-12 C3 (NORRI)
3. Wed 10-11 B3112 (COOPER)
4. Wed 11-12 B3112 (COOPER)
5. Wed 16-17 B3113 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
6. Wed 17-18 B3113 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
7. Thu 10-11 B4118 (GURNEY)
8. Thu 11-12 B4118 (GURNEY)

NettiOpsu

Tutorials (starting 3.9.2009):

1. Mon 10-11 B3112 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
2. Mon 11-12 B3112 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
3. Mon 12-13 B3112 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
4. Mon 16-17 B4118 (NORRI)
5. Mon 17-18 B4118 (NORRI)
6. Thu 14-15 B4114 (NORRI)
7. Thu 15-16 B4114 (NORRI)

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Tutorials (starting 1.9.2009):

1. Mon 10-12  B4118 (ROBERTSON)
2. Mon 12-14 B5078 (PIIPPONEN)
3. Mon 12-14 A3098 (RUDANKO)
4. Tue 14-16  B3112 (COOPER)

Groups formed on the basis of applications in spring 2009.

Lectures (starting 1.9.2009):

• Tue 16-18 B3107 (ROBERTSON)

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Fortnightly lectures (starting 1.9.2009):

• Tue 10-12  B4115 (SAVOLAINEN)

Tutorials (intervening weeks): 

1.  Mon 12-14 B4114 (TOIKKANEN)
2.  Tue 10-12 B4115 (SAVOLAINEN)

The course will consist of seven lectures (for all participants) and six tutorials (2 groups) in alternate weeks, starting with a lecture on September 1st.

The aim is to learn to read theoretical texts, discover their line of argumentation, become aware of their omissions and see that the authors have produced their texts in a certain situation with particular goals in mind.

The course will consist of seven units:

1. Theory, Method, Ideology and New Criticism
2. Structuralism and Semiotics
3. Poststructuralism and Deconstruction
4. Marxism and New Historicism
5. Feminism, Gender and Sexuality
6. Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
7. Cultural Studies  

Each student is expected to purchase Peter Barry?s Beginning Theory, An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (2002; available at the university bookstore), which will provide preliminary reading for each lecture. In addition, theoretical texts will be provided for students as photocopies for the tutorials at the first lecture.

Assessment: Active participation, a presentation in the tutorials, plus a lecture diary.

Enrolment is restricted to 28 (2x14). Anyone not given a place but urgently needing one should contact Jarkko Toikkanen or Matti Savolainen directly to see what can be done.

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   Thu 12-14 B3110 (SAVOLAINEN) (starting 3.9.2009)

The course will discuss and reassess the idea of the efflorencence of American literary culture of the 19th century, expounded by F. O. Matthiessen in his classic American Renaissance (1941), and expand the idea along the guidelines set by Jane Tompkins in her Sensational Designs (1985). We will read texts by R. W. Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs and Emily Dickinson. In addition, we will watch a documentary on Frederick Douglass. The reading materials for the course will be provided in photocopies.

Enrolment is restricted to fourteen(ten students of English Philology & four of the NAM program).

Assessment: Group participation and a lecture diary.

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•    Tue 14-16 C1 (SALMELA) (starting 1.9.2009)

This course provides an introduction to the naturalistic tradition in American literature, from its beginnings in the nineteenth century to some recent texts. Naturalism, as most readers know it, flourished in the USA around the turn of the 20th century in the works of writers like Stephen Crane and Jack London. In this course, however, we will establish a wider picture of naturalism as a consistent tendency in American fiction, not just a moment in literary history. We will examine various contexts and goals of naturalistic representation and consider, for example, the following questions: Why do characters so often die in naturalistic fictions? What is the significance of race and gender in this tradition? What does it all have to do with nature?

Assessment: class participation and a course diary.

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•     Thu 12-14 A21 (PIIPPONEN)

In this course we will examine the question of murder and representation, with a special focus on gender issues. We will concentrate on one type of murder, serial murder, as a cultural narrative from the end of the 19th century to the present. During this course we will analyze the cultural imagery and social contexts of serial killing in Britain and the United States. In particular, we will try to answer this question: how are gender and "normalcy" constructed through murder narratives, deviation, and crime? We will start with the case of Jack the Ripper - the first "modern" serial killer - and his victims and move on to representations of male and female psychopaths and lesbian serial killing. We will explore such different genres as films and documentary programmes as well as texts written by FBI agents, serial killers and psychiatrists. We will also read three novels: Robert Bloch's Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho, and Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend.

Assessment: essay and class contribution.

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   Wed 14-16 B4118 (ROBERTSON) (starting 2.9.2009)

The text of Paradise Lost poses present-day readers many fascinating problems. Do we read it for its theology; for its display of vast Classical and Biblical intertextuality; for its defence of individual liberty; or for the beauties of the poetry? Does the text suggest Milton was a misogynist? Is it the greatest poem, the greatest Protestant poem, and the only true epic in English? Was Milton, as William Blake claimed, "of the Devil's party without knowing it"?

During the course we will be reading Paradise Lost. Because it is essential that everyone has read the texts, there will be a clear reading task set each week. In addition, students will be given a set of questions and problems to consider while doing the reading, and these will form the basis of the teaching.

Students will also be expected to read in Milton criticism, and write one paper, or a long answer in an examination. Assessment will be on the basis of paper/exam plus class contribution.

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• Fri 8-11 (8.30-10.50) A3098 (RUDANKO) (starting 4.9.2009)

Also offered in spring 2010.

The course starts with a discussion of how to motivate the postulation of grammatical constituents. The construction of linguistic hypotheses and generalizations to account for observed data is discussed and illustrated, using concrete examples from relatively recent work, including the X-bar level in English grammar. Electronic corpora are introduced and some of their possibilities explored. The course also includes a discussion of linguistic metatheory and the nature of data in linguistics. Throughout the course the focus is on the grammar of current English.

Course-work includes class participation, homework assignments, a brief paper presented in class, and a final exam.

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•    Wed 10-12 A2052 (KLEMOLA) (starting 2.9.2009)

This course starts with a discussion of the nature of variationist approaches to language. The methods of Labovian sociolinguistics, which form the backbone of most variationist approaches, will be discussed in some detail during the course. During the course we will also examine in detail the methods applied in some classic sociolinguistic, dialectological and historical studies. The course includes a discussion of the statistical methods used in variationist linguistics.

A reading list will be provided at the beginning of the course.

Course work includes weekly sessions, background reading, oral presentation in the class, and a final essay.

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• Tue 14-16 B4118 (NORRI) (starting 1.9.2009)

This option will present students with an extensive coverage of the different ways in which new words are formed in English. The course will begin by a survey of the basic concepts relating to word-formation and morphology (affix, derivation, root, base, lexeme, opaqueness, transparency etc.). We shall then move on to examine the many different processes by which new words are formed in English (e.g. derivation, compounding, blending, clipping, sound-symbolism). The course ends with two relatively recent ways of putting together new words (cut-down puns and knock-knock words).

Course work includes regular attendance of the weekly sessions, homework assignments (theory handouts and practical exercises relating to various aspects of word-formation), and an end-of-term examination.

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• Fri 10-12 B4118 (NORRI) (starting 4.9.2009)

(Note: This course is not available to those who have done the Lexicology option offered in recent years)

The aim of the course is to give the participants an overall picture of the principles of the study of words. We shall begin by looking at the varieties of English (e.g. geographical, dialectal, social, formal, informal, slang, technical, pejorative) and how these are reflected on the level of vocabulary. The labelling of the different types of variety in dictionaries will also be discussed. After this, the course moves on to examine the main sources of English vocabulary (techniques of word-formation, foreign adoptions). Next, aspects of meaning will be addressed, including the ways in which the meanings of words change along dimensions such as gender (e.g. guy, certain articles of clothing) and pejoration (e.g. idiot, imbecile, moron). We shall finally discuss larger structures pertaining to the lexicon. These may be either paradigmatic relations (e.g. synonymy, polysemy, antonymy, lexical fields, lexical sets) or syntagmatic ones (e.g. collocations).

Course work includes regular attendance of the weekly sessions, homework assignments (practical exercises relating to various aspects of vocabulary), and an essay on a specific topic relating to the study of words.

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•   Tue 14-16 B3030 (KLEMOLA) (starting 1.9.2009)

This course will focus on the social aspects of language variation. The first half of the course will be devoted to a detailed discussion of some of the central issues in so-called Labovian sociolinguistics/microsociolinguistics. During the second half of the course the focus will be on a number of sociolinguistic topics including language and ethnicity, language, sex, and gender, language contact and language change.

A reading list will be provided at the beginning of the course.

Course work includes weekly sessions, background reading, oral presentation in the class, and a final essay.

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•    Thu 12-14 A2093 (PAHTA), starting from 3.9.

This course reviews linguistic as well as various socio-cultural aspects of English as a global language, paying attention to both theory and practice. The course has three main aims. Firstly, it briefly outlines the development and characteristics of English as a global language ? the variation, change and diversification of English in different regions, societies, communities and settings in the world ? with specific emphasis on non-native-speaker contexts. Of particular interest here is the role and use of English in Finland. Secondly, the course provides a critical overview of issues around and debates on the impact of the spread of English in the world. Thirdly, it familiarizes students with a range of linguistic and discourse-pragmatic approaches to studying English as a global language, also providing suggestions and support for pro gradu research in this area. Course work includes weekly sessions, background reading, and a mini project, its oral presentation and written report.

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•    Thu 14-16 A2093 (PAHTA), starting from 3.9.

This course considers the challenges that language variation poses for language teaching. It is specially designed for future professionals in language learning and teaching, and offers suggestions and support for pro gradu research in this area, but it is useful for any students interested in language variation. The course reviews some of the many dimensions along which a language can vary, such as mode and register (spoken and written language, formal and informal styles), domain (special languages), social class, gender (men?s and women?s language) and geographical region (Englishes), and the ways in which these dimensions are and can be taken into account in the classroom. The course begins with introductory lectures reviewing the dimensions of variation and the pedagogical issues concerning them. After this, the course moves into a seminar phase, including a mini project, its oral presentation and written report.

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Periods I-IV, every other week.

1. Mon 18-20, starting 7.9 B5033 (ROBERTSON) literature: Early Modern, 18th century, 19th century British, Romantic and Victorian.
2. Tue 18-20, starting 1.9 A2093 (RUDANKO), corpus-based approaches to the study of British and American English
3. Wed 16-18, starting 2.9 B5078 (KLEMOLA), linguistics, esp. language variation and change
4. Wed 16-18, starting 9.9 B5078 (PAHTA), analyzing language in context, text and discourse studies, applied linguistics, language teaching
5. Wed 16-18, starting 2.9 B4119 (SAVOLAINEN) literature:  esp.19th century American, 20th century British and American

Please enrol by contacting the teacher concerned before the course begins. For further information, see the English Department pages.

Small group practice for exchange students.

This course is organised into 4-5 modules, practising different areas. See the  notice board outside B5040 for details at the beginning of the spring term.

1. Tue 14-15 B3108 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
2. Tue 15-16 B3108 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)

Notice board outside B5040

Lectures (starting 11.1.2010):

• Mon 16-17 B1097 (ROBERTSON)

Tutorials

1. Tue 10-11 A06 (ROBERTSON)
2. Tue 11-12 A06 (ROBERTSON)
3. Tue 16-17 A3098 (ROBERTSON)
4. Wed 15-16 A31 (ROBERTSON)
5. Wed 16-17 A31 (ROBERTSON)
6. Thu 12-13 B3030 (ROBERTSON)
7. Thu 13-14 B3030 (ROBERTSON)

No separate enrolment. Groups formed in the autumn term for P2a American Literature I continue in the spring term. Students changing groups, or joining a group for the first time, please contact the teachers concerned directly.

• Thu 14-15 Paavo Koli auditorium (GURNEY)

Tutorials (starting 12.1.2010):

1. Tue 16-17  B3108 (GURNEY)
2. Wed 10-11 B4118 (GURNEY)
3. Wed 11-12  B4118 (GURNEY)
4. Thu 10-11 B3113 (NORRI)
5. Thu 11-12 B3113 (NORRI)
6. Thu 12-13  B5078 (COOPER)
7. Thu 13-14  B5078 (COOPER)

No separate enrolment. Groups formed in the autumn term for P3a Structure of English I will continue in the spring. Students changing groups, or joining a group for the first time, should contact the teachers concerned directly.

Tutorials (starting 11.1.2010):

1. Mon 10-11  A2093 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
2. Mon 10-11  B4118 (NORRI)
3. Mon 11-12  A2093 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
4. Mon 11-12  B4118 (NORRI)
5. Mon 12-13  A2093 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
6. Fri 10-11 B4118 (NORRI)
7. Fri 11-12 B4118 (NORRI)

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1. (F-E translation) Tue 9-10 B4116 (COOPER)
2. (F-E translation) Tue 17-18 B3111 (GURNEY)
3. (F-E translation) Wed 14-15 A06 (GURNEY)

Alternative course of writing assignments not offered spring 2010

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Language laboratory exercises (28 hours):

1. Mon 12-14 B4125 (COOPER)
2. Tue 8-10 B4125 (GURNEY)
3. Tue 10-12 B4125 (GURNEY)
4. Wed 14-16 B4125 (COOPER)
5. Wed 16-18 B4125 (GURNEY)
6. Thu 10-12 B4125 (COOPER)

No separate enrolment. Groups formed in the autumn term for P1b Phonetics and Pronunciation will continue in the spring term. Students changing groups, or joining the group for the first time, should contact the teachers concerned directly.

Lectures (starting 11.1.2010):

• Mon 15-16 B1097 (PIIPPONEN, SALMELA)

Tutorials (starting 12.1.2010):

1. Tue 10-11 B4119 (PIIPPONEN)
2. Tue 11-12 B4119 (PIIPPONEN)
3. Wed 9-10 A2093 (SALMELA)
4. Wed 10-11 A2093 (SALMELA)
5. Wed 11-12 A2093 (SALMELA)
6. Wed 16-17 B4117 (PIIPPONEN)

No separate enrolment. Groups formed in the autumn term for A2a British Literature II continue in the spring term. Students changing groups, or joining a group for the first time, please contact the teachers concerned directly.

2 hours per week, lecture plus tutorial.

Lectures (starting 11.1.2010):

• Mon 14-15  B1097 (SALMELA, PIIPPONEN)

Tutorials (starting 13.1.2010):

1. Wed 14-15 C3 (SALMELA)
2. Wed 15-16 C3 (SALMELA)
3. Wed 17-18 B4117 (PIIPPONEN)
4. Thu 10-11 C3 (SALMELA)
5. Thu 11-12 A21 (PIIPPONEN)
6. Thu 12-13  A21 (PIIPPONEN)
7. Thu 13-14 A21 (PIIPPONEN)

NettiOpsu

Tutorials:

1. Tue 10-11C3 (NORRI)
2. Tue 11-12 C3 (NORRI)
3. Wed 10-11 B3112 (COOPER)
4. Wed 11-12 B3112 (COOPER)
5. Wed 16-17 B3113 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
6. Wed 17-18 B3113 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
7. Thu 10-11 B4118 (GURNEY)
8. Thu 11-12 B4118 (GURNEY)

No separate enrolment. Groups formed in the autumn term for A3a Structure of English III continue in the spring term. Students changing groups, or joining a group for the first time: please contact the teachers concerned directly.

Periods III-IV, 1 hour per week

Tutorials:

1. Mon 16-17 B4118 (NORRI)
2. Mon 17-18 B4118 (NORRI)
3. Wed 14-15 A2093 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
4. Thu 10-11 B5078 (KLEMOLA)
5. Thu 11-12 B5078 (KLEMOLA))
6. Thu 14-15 B4114 (NORRI)

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Periods III-IV.  2 hours per week

5. Tue 14-16 A3098 (PIIPPONEN)

6. Wed 14-16 B4118 (PAHTA)

(Groups 1-4 held in autumn 2009.)

Groups formed on the basis of applications in spring 2009.

Periods III-IV. Lectures,  3 hours per week

Tue 16-18 A1081 and Thu 15-16 A3 (NORRI)

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• Tue 10-12 C1 (SAVOLAINEN), starting 19.01

The course will expand and sharpen our understanding of Anglo-American Modernism with some points of contact to Continental developments of the period. Also the question of non-Western aspects of Modernism will be broached. We will be reading theoretical and fictional texts by T.S.Eliot, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Wilfred Owen, Djuna Barnes, Jean Toomer, William Faulkner, D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. We will listen to the music of Igor Stravinsky and Benjamin Britten and watch two films: Sally Potter's Orlando (1992) and Carol Reed's The Third Man (1949). The longer texts to be analysed in class are Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Djuna Barnes' Nightwood, and William Faulkner's Pylon (each student should purchase copies of these books; to be available at the university bookstore). The emphasis will be on prose, with a few sidesteps to The War Poets.

Enrolment is restricted to twelve.

Assessment: group participation, presentation in class, essay of 10-12 pages. Two students will have an opportunity to organize a book exhibition on Modernism in the Humanika Library in March 2010; this is to be decided at the beginning of December 2009, so any group members interested please contact me then.

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• Thu 12-14 C3 (SALMELA)

This course surveys the new types of experimental literary fiction that gained prominence in the United States in the latter half of the 20th century. To examine the stylistic and philosophical fundamentals of literary postmodernism, we will first read texts written in the 1960?s by authors such as John Barth, Donald Barthelme, and Robert Coover. The latter half of the course concentrates on more recent examples of postmodernist textuality. We will also examine a few influential theories and concepts, watch two films, and consider the importance of other kinds of texts, such as graphic novels, in the aesthetic project of postmodernism.

Assessment: class participation, a short presentation, and a course diary.

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• Thu 12-14 A3098 (SAVOLAINEN)

The course will be a continuation of the unit ?New Literatures in English?, expanding and deepening our understanding of the impact and ramifications of European, particularly British, colonialism in the literary and cultural sphere. We will be reading and discussing theoretical texts by Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Michel Foucault, Mahdu Kishwar and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. The novels to be discussed in class are Salman Rushdie?s Midnight?s Children and Toni Morrison?s Tar Baby (each student should purchase copies of these books; to be available at the university bookstore). In addition we will be watching two films: Gillo Pontecorvo?s Battle of Algiers (1956) and Richard Attenborough?s Gandi (1982).

Assessment: group participation, presentation in class, essay of 10-12 pages.

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• Mon 12-14 B5078 (PIIPPONEN)

This course focuses on gender and writing, specifically on women?s writing. We will mainly examine North American writers (novels and short stories), from the end of the 19th century to the present ? for example, such writers as Kate Chopin, Pauline Hopkins, Alice Walker, Katherine V. Forrest. Thus, the texts will range from 19th century ?New Woman? fiction to African-American stories about passing to contemporary lesbian detective fiction. Through these texts we will analyze the issues of gender, ethnicity, class, desire, and place, and we will also discuss a number of critical texts.

Assessment: essay and class contribution

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• Thu 16-18 C3 (ROBERTSON)

The Historical Novel is arguably the most popular genre among ordinary readers in the English-speaking world. It is mostly ignored by academics, partly because there is a huge amount of very second-rate writing in the bookshops. But not all Historical Fiction is made up of either ?bodice rippers? or ?sword and sorcery?. Many highly respected writers have either written at least one novel that might be regarded as Historical Fiction, or have made a whole career out of (Thomas Hardy, for example). The genre boundaries are flexible, but a text may be regarded as Historical Fiction if it is set in a time before the author?s birth, and attempts to recreate the life conditions and ways of thinking of people in the past.

In this course we will be reading mostly short texts by British authors. We will start with Sir Walter Scott, as his Waverley novels are generally agreed to be the beginning of the genre. We will be reading at least one novel, and watching at least one film. We will also be discussing a range of theoretical matters concerning history and textuality. The aim of the course is to provide students with some tools to examine Historical Fiction, enabling them to write an MA thesis within this area of interest.

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• Fri 8-11 (8.30-10.50) A3098 (RUDANKO)

This course is also offered in autumn 2009.

The course starts with a discussion of how to motivate the postulation of grammatical constituents. The construction of linguistic hypotheses and generalizations to account for observed data is discussed and illustrated, using concrete examples from relatively recent work, including the X-bar level in English grammar. Electronic corpora are introduced and some of their possibilities explored. The course also includes a discussion of linguistic metatheory and the nature of data in linguistics. Throughout the course the focus is on the grammar of current English.

Course-work includes class participation, homework assignments, a brief paper presented in class, and a final exam.

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• Thu 12-14 A07 (PAHTA)

This course examines the various methods that can be used in analyzing the language, texts and discourses in the Internet. Web-based linguistics is a new and rapidly developing field, which offers interesting opportunities for examining the forms and functions language in a new channel of communication. The course will explore the application of a range of methods used for analyzing speech or writing in other context, including discourse-pragmatic analysis and corpus methods. The course is related to an ongoing research project with Professor Sirpa Leppänen (JyU) and it will run simultaneously in two locations with the help of video conferencing, one group in Tampere and one in Jyväskylä. Course work includes weekly sessions, background reading, and a mini project and its report.

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• Fri 13-16 (13.15-15.35) A3098* (RUDANKO)

*Huom! 16.4. A3112

This course traces features of change and continuity in the core grammar of English from the eighteenth century to the present, with data drawn primarily from synchronic and diachronic computer corpora of English. The course focuses on complementation, but there are no formal prerequisites for attending.The option will offer suggestions on how to use computer corpora to write a pro gradu thesis on complementation.

Course-work includes class participation, homework assignments, a brief paper to be presented in class on complementation or another approved aspect of English grammar, and a final exam.

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• Tue 14-16 B3030 (KLEMOLA)

Most people in the world speak two or more languages. Language contact is thus a ubiquitous phenomenon which entails a wide range of social, political and linguistic consequences. This course provides a survey of language contact phenomena, focusing on contact-induced changes in varieties of English. Topics to be discussed during the course include Bilingualism and Multilingualism, Code-Switching, Contact-Induced Language Change, Second Language Acquisition and Language Shift, Language Death, Pidgins and Creoles.

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